Yes, I'm positive this is what we have - I have seen heavy tapeworm segments in several droppings. 
The girls had a heyday in my compost heap where they found huge beetle grubs and no doubt that's where they got them. Valbazen is on it's way here but I have lots of questions about contamination and cleanup!
This couldn't have happened at a worse time, we had just switched the girls over to a newly built coop which is parallel to the old one and shares one long wall. I had planned to move my 4 month old turkey poults into the old coop asap as they have long outgrown their temporary pen. We live in the desert so it's sand out here and poo usually dries rock hard in a day or 2.
So I plan to worm the chickens with Dawg's advice, 3 treatments over the course of 3wks. My questions are these -
1. Is there anything I can do to reduce soil contamination beyond removing as much poop and litter as possible and filling in with clean topsoil?
2. Just how long exactly will this live in my soil and do I need to be concerned about using the dry manure for my garden?
3. Should I worm the turkeys at the same time or wait until after doing the chickens OR wait until they display symptoms? These particular turkeys are breeding birds, not for meat this year.
4. How much do I give an immature turkey? They are heritage, 15-16wks old. Is there a formula for figuring it out by weight or should I dose them the same as one of my chickens? They are about the size of a smaller bodied laying hen.
The girls had a heyday in my compost heap where they found huge beetle grubs and no doubt that's where they got them. Valbazen is on it's way here but I have lots of questions about contamination and cleanup! This couldn't have happened at a worse time, we had just switched the girls over to a newly built coop which is parallel to the old one and shares one long wall. I had planned to move my 4 month old turkey poults into the old coop asap as they have long outgrown their temporary pen. We live in the desert so it's sand out here and poo usually dries rock hard in a day or 2.
So I plan to worm the chickens with Dawg's advice, 3 treatments over the course of 3wks. My questions are these -
1. Is there anything I can do to reduce soil contamination beyond removing as much poop and litter as possible and filling in with clean topsoil?
2. Just how long exactly will this live in my soil and do I need to be concerned about using the dry manure for my garden?
3. Should I worm the turkeys at the same time or wait until after doing the chickens OR wait until they display symptoms? These particular turkeys are breeding birds, not for meat this year.
4. How much do I give an immature turkey? They are heritage, 15-16wks old. Is there a formula for figuring it out by weight or should I dose them the same as one of my chickens? They are about the size of a smaller bodied laying hen.
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